Word: narasingha
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...Nepal, already one of the world's poorest countries. Nepal's economy was expected to grow by just 2.5% this year before the strike began; it is certain to grow by much less now. "We have apologized to the people for the hardships caused by the movement," says Arjun Narasingha K.C., a key member of the Nepali Congress, one of the seven parties spearheading the anti-King movement. "But in every country's history there is a period of struggle and hardship. Freedom comes at a price," he says...
...Rangoon last fortnight, Narasingha Swami, Indian mystic, ate a handful of ground glass, drank half a drachma of nitric acid, some sulfuric acid, also swallowed a grain of strychnine and a grain of potassium cyanide.. He died in agony. His friends explained it was because he had been kept from doing his yatayoga (breath-control and autosuggestion exercises) by swarms of visitors at his house...
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